Mandolin-case.



No. 671,567. Patented Apr. 9, lam.

A. SHAEFFER.

MAND QLIN CASE.

(Application file d Feb. 18, 1901.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARLING SHAEFFER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MANDOLIN-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters'Patent No. 671,567, dated. April 9, 1901. Application filed February 18, 1901.. Serial No. 47,762. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it. known that I, ARLING SHAEFFER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Mandolin-Case, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to means for covering and protecting mandolins, guitars, banjos, and other like stringed musical instruments; and my object is to produce aconsiruction which is light and durable and adapted to be made in a great variety of colors and of forms exactly suited to the instrument itis intended to cover, the same being described hereinafter and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an isometric perspective view of a mandolin-case in the open condition ready to receive an instrument. Fig. 2 is the same as is shown in Fig. 1, but in the closed position. Fig. 3 is an isometric perspective view of a wire frame to which the cloth comprising the sides and ends are attached. Fig. 4 is an enlarged cross-section on broken line 7 8, Fig. 1, to'illustrate method of attaching -;the cloth sides and ends to the wire frame.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged elevation of the lower end of a portion of the case to illustrate a footpiece adapted to stiffen and protect the end of the case. Fig. 6 is a section on broken line 9 10, Fig. 5, to illustrate manner of securing the footpiece in position.

Similar letters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

The case comprises a wire frame such as is shown in Fig. 3 at A and B. The portion A is formed to agree to the general outline of the top of the instrument it is designed to protect, and the bail-shaped portion B is pivotally mounted at each side to the part A at C and D. At E and F are two loops adapted to receive rings G and H, to which the handle I is attached.

Attached to the frame A and completely covering it is' a cloth flat front portion J, which fills all the space between the sides and ends thereof and serves to cover the top of the instrument. The rear portion K has the lower end and side margins also connected with the frame A, directly or indi- 'to the back of a mandolin.

The front cover J is usually made of one piece of cloth; but it is obvious that it may be made of a number of different pieces and in a variety of colors, if desired.

Usually in the manufacture of these cases the goods forming the front and back portions J and K, which form the bag, are sewed together in the inside-out position near the margins thereof, after which the bag formed is turned so that the standing portions of the seam are at the inside of the bag, as seen in Figs. 4 and 6 at L and M. The lower narrow portion of the frame is now inserted in the bag and from the outside a strong seam is run through the two thicknesses forming the bag close up to the inside of the wire of the frame from pivotal loop C around to pivotal loop D, this scam being indicated at N in Figs. 4, 5, and 6, so that the frame is held away from the surface of the instrument by not less than two thicknesses of cloth all around between the points C and D in the bag portion of the case. Above the pivotal loops C and D the front portion J and back hemispherical portion K may be attached to their respective portions of the frame by any ordinary method, such as by wrapping the marginal edges of the cloth around the wire of the frame and stitching the same in contact close up to the inside surface of the 'framewire, or the parts may be cemented in position alone or in combination with stitching, as practice may dictate. The footpiece O is usually made of metal and is held in position by being first placed over the lower end of the case and then subjected to heavy pressure, so as to crimp the metal partially around the bead formed by the frame-wire, when it serves as a means to prevent the cloth of the case from being injured by contact with the floor when the instrument/is inclosed and the e se standing, as in a corner, in a vertical position.

The bail-shaped port-ion B is adapted to turn on its pivotal centers at C and D and close against. the upper circular portion of:

of the instrulnent to be held, and a bail or xninor frame conforming to the shape of one end of the inain frame and pi\ ota1ly :ittzmched thereto, a. sheet of material marginally se- 011 red to the main frame and serving as a su bsLant-ially fiat filling therein, vvhich is the frontof the ease, a piece of pliable material marginally connected with the said frame a portion of its length at't-he rear of the said front sheet of material, the upper end ortiori of the pliable piece of malterial marginally at taelied to the said bail or minor frame and forixxing a. filling tlierein and with tlle first-named sheet of xnaterial and the (leseribed frame forming a case for the purpose Stated.

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